Wanstead Birder

At the start of this year I wondered if I would be able to see 1000 species by the end of it. A 'Big Year' of sorts, but with my own...

Bob the Turaco 2008-2023 I didn't actually know it had been named Bob, but this popular Wanstead bird passed away this year in a local O...

I was in Fife for Christmas with the family. Birding opportunities were thin on the ground and the festive season seemed to coincide with a ...

Some of the local birders had a small gathering at the pub before Christmas to talk about how rubbish 2023 had been and how 2024 was going t...

Earlier this year I wondered if I stood a chance at getting to 100 posts. This was in August, it felt as if the year was already drawing to ...

Back in October or November when I was frantically running up and down the garden in my [delayed] annual plant reshuffle I noticed that my S...

Another dismal Saturday morning attempting to see birds in Wanstead, probably made even worse by my marathon blogging of South Africa, full ...